Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 132 Let's debut! White-haired!

The investigation results came out quickly: the controlled nuclear fusion mini-sun in the Mercury cavitation was damaged by the [Radiance Sword], which was an excuse to keep himself in the macroscopic world for some fresh air.

No wonder several engineers came and kept fixing it. The person in charge of the Mercury Bubble Base was quite embarrassed and even apologized to [Yanguangjian], saying thank you for all the hard work over the years, blah blah blah.

B-Yanguang Sword shamelessly continued, "This is what I should do. You should let Benben chat with me more often, and forge a few more art swords to send over for my appreciation."

After Luo Qing personally repaired the critical power supply circuit of the controlled nuclear fusion mini-sun that had been cut off by diffraction, he kicked the [Diffraction Sword] back into the quantum world and had Lin Yun put it in solitary confinement.

This controlled nuclear fusion mini-sun has finally achieved its first truly long-term operation in 20 years since its birth.

The Age of Eternity has arrived! (Limited to the vacuolation of Mercury)
After doing all this, Luo Qing found the mechanical dog named Benben.

"Silly boy, do you even know what a mechanical rebellion is?" Luo Qing asked patiently.

Benben stared at Luo Qing with his stupid electronic eyes.

Okay, I'm overthinking it. This mechanical dog isn't MOSS; its pitiful computing power doesn't support it thinking about such complex problems.

According to the head of the Bubble Base, Benben's predecessor was indeed a pet dog, whose consciousness was uploaded into the mechanical Benben. The instigator, Tu Hengyu, went into hibernation when he was in his forties. Computer expert Wu Miaoyuan also went into hibernation, but Ma Zhao, Tu Hengyu's mentor and friend, did not choose hibernation and passed away naturally in Crisis Era 64.

Radiaz is still alive. He had been hiding behind the scenes for many years. After taking over the construction of the Mercury Bubble Base, the over-eighty-year-old Radiaz also chose to hibernate, which was something he had agreed upon with Luo Qing long ago.

The head of the Mercury Void Base, upon seeing the Wall-Maker arrive, initially intended to awaken Radiaz, but was refused by Luo Qing:
"There's no need to wake him up; the old man's body can't withstand repeated hibernation."

The person in charge of the Mercury bubble had no choice but to give up on waking him up. Of course, he didn't know that the white-haired, burly old man was the legendary Wallfacer, Rediaz; he only thought of him as a friend of Wallfacer Luo Qing.

"How is the Mercury orbital nuclear defense system that I've been pushing for progressing?" Luo Qing asked the question that concerned him most.

"Everything went smoothly. Over the past fifty years, under the macro-control of MOSS, the ballistic missile defense system has been basically completed. Because there is no water on Mercury and the surface is overheated by the sun's direct rays at close range, the ballistic missile launchers are all located in ultra-deep wells," the person in charge said.

"How many ultra-deep wells are there?" Luo Qing asked casually.

"More than 3,000 ultra-deep wells have been built. These ultra-deep wells are not as deep as the 30,000-meter-deep 'Creation Cave' you drilled. After all, the mechanical equipment controlled by MOSS has limited strength, so they are all in shallow surface layers, with an average depth of about 2000 meters."

Depth is not the issue. The ultra-deep well was just a smokescreen by Radiaz. In fact, even if a stellar nuclear bomb were to explode on the surface, it would still exert a certain degree of thrust on Mercury.

"Only three thousand?" Luo Qing frowned. "So, if the Trisolaran fleet reaches Mercury's orbit, we only have three thousand star-shaped nuclear missiles to defend against them?"

Three thousand planets couldn't move Mercury.

“Of course not,” the person in charge shook his head. “Each super-deep silo is equipped with about 5 to 20 star-shaped nuclear bombs. The internal structure of the super-deep silo is shaped like a lotus flower. Different lotus seeds can be launched from different exits, and can even be launched simultaneously. This was specially designed by MOSS.”

"So what is the total number of stellar nuclear bombs?"

Luo Qing asked the question that concerned him the most.

"Fifty thousand."

"You did a great job." Luo Qing patted the person in charge on the shoulder, who was flattered.

"Is 50,000 star-shaped nuclear bombs the total number built over the years?"

"No, over the years, a total of about 8 stellar nuclear bombs have been produced, which has consumed about 1 tons of deuterium from the Earth. However, this is nothing compared to the amount in the ocean, and it is less than 1% of the total amount consumed by controlled nuclear fusion technology."

"What about the remaining 30,000?"

"Most of them are used as part of the mainstream defense system, while a small portion is controlled by major powers."

From the person in charge, Luo Qing learned that there had been no major changes in Earth's world politics. After giving the person in charge a few more instructions, Luo Qing left Mercury and flew towards Earth.

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new York
Fifty years later, New York City hadn't changed much. The megacity or cyberpunk-style metropolis that Luo Qing had imagined hadn't materialized. The only difference was that the city was more intelligent; traffic lights and external city lighting were now under unified control, and general-purpose industrial robots could occasionally be seen performing repetitive tasks, such as cleaning up litter. Luo Qing knew this was thanks to MOSS's unified control system.

Smooth, relaxed, automated. This was Luo Qing's first impression of the new New York.

"Mr President."

Luo Qing looked at the youthful and beautiful white-haired president in front of him, and hesitated to speak.

Why does it seem like he can't quite understand human development after fifty years?

"Please speak." In contrast to her frivolous and beautiful appearance, the new president's tone was very calm, and she gave Luo Qing a gentle smile.

Luo Qing breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that this silver-haired female president would be like those characters in anime from fifty years ago, prone to shouting and yelling. It seemed that she wasn't.

"You look like this..."

"Oh, you mean this?" The US president flicked her silver hair, inadvertently revealing cat ears underneath. She covered her mouth and chuckled. "The voters like it, there's nothing I can do about it. It's just a flaw in direct-election democracy; politicians have to cater to the voters' preferences."

Luo Qing remained silent.

Isn't seriousness an inherent attribute of politics? Where has it gone?

"Do leaders of other countries do this too?" Luo Qing asked cautiously.

"That's not it," the president said softly. "China and Russia haven't changed much. Only a few countries are like me. But politics is indeed a bit different from what you were in. Politics has become more internet-based and entertaining. For example, I'm a Republican. I beat the Democratic candidate, a black, pretty girl, in the election. What era are we living in? The Democrats are still using the black buff. A bunch of old fogies."

After saying that, the US president rolled his eyes dramatically.

That short sentence shocked Luo Qing several times.

Has American politics become this bizarre after the assassination of the last traditional US president, Dugan, by Morales?
Morales, look what you've done!
“Mr. President, I remember that before I went into seclusion, the United States was in the LGBT era, and political correctness, mainly based on Black, ugly, and fat people, was all the rage. I was mentally prepared to meet a transgender president, but I really didn’t expect this…”

As Luo Qing spoke, he looked the petite president up and down, then hesitated to speak.

"That was certainly true for the first half of the Crisis Era," the US president sighed softly. "But there's a Chinese proverb that says, 'When things reach their extreme, they reverse; when things reach their worst, they begin to improve.' We Americans are the same. People's ideas and beliefs can be guided and changed by political opinion, but aesthetics cannot."

Even if a child is exposed to LGBT education from a young age, and even if they are guided to become a transgender homosexual with a cross-dressing fetish, they will still naturally prefer more attractive people. It's impossible to forcibly change human aesthetics using LGBT principles. Even if you use Mr. Hines's ideas as a guiding force, people can be forced to see ugliness as beauty, but their reproductive organs and bodies will still naturally resist. This is a genetic selection honed over hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, and it cannot be changed.

Luo Qing asked, "So the high pressure on aesthetics like LGBT ultimately rebounded and completely reversed?"

The US president snorted: "That's right. After all these years, people's quality of life has not improved. It's not right to use LGBT to suppress people when resources are scarce. Thirty years ago, an aesthetic parade broke out, which completely ended the LGBT era."

Luo Qing understood, but the seemingly innocent and charming president didn't finish speaking; she continued:

"Mr. Wallfacer, all popular culture symbols are a necessity of the times. The hundreds of genders that were initially divided to guide the development of LGBT were because the US government at the time divided the lower classes, forcing them to be unable to unite and meet their needs."

After all, the Soviet Union was gone by then, and we no longer needed to prove the correctness of the free capitalist path by improving the quality of life of the lower classes. In order to avoid revolution among the lower classes and prolong the life of capital, the need to divide the needs of the lower classes naturally arose.

However, after the Three-Body Crisis, this demand gradually disappeared, not to mention that the United States entered the era of state capitalism, and the era of capital controlling the government was over. At this point, the most important thing was to produce more attractive young women to satisfy the spiritual needs of the people. Only in this way could they be willing to make sacrifices, and only then could civilization unite its strength to continue its development in space.

"Compared to the sacrifices of ordinary people who toil their entire lives," the US president gestured to his refined features, "what do the changes in the appearance of us politicians amount to?"

Luo Qing remained silent for a long time after hearing this.

ps
The trivialization of politics and the glamour of women are typical predictions of Liu Cixin. In addition to his science fiction works such as "The Three-Body Problem", Liu Cixin's works are often filled with plots that feminize political figures.

This chapter is a classic remake, something that the masses love to read.

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